Flier Wars...

This is the first year I have been in business for myself, consequently, this is the first time this has happened.

I passed out fliers for about two hours this morning. This was in the neighborhood of several accounts. When I came back to mow a couple of hours later, they were scattered all over the street. Inside the newspaper boxes were another company's fliers. This company, I thought, was legit. It took me another hour to walk around picking them up.

Happened to me once....I got a call from the HOA that my fliers were scattered all over the place. Apparently another LCO lived in that subdivision and proceded to take them out and throw them on the yard and then he called the HOA. He's not around anymore that I know of.

But it isn't typical...I have passed out probablt 10,000+ fliers over the years and that is the only time that happened.

Afterall, competition is the driving force for sales and without competition we would have a monopoly.

I woudn't think that that is legal !
Somone takes something that is not theirs off someones door-Maybee theft right there and you make the case that they were intentionaly hurting your business.
you ought to check into it

If you are putting them in newspaper boxes, it depends on the style of the box. Ive put them in the type that are square with no back and had flyers all over the neighborhood. It only takes a little wind to send them flying. I ended up buying clothes pins and clamping them in. Ive put them in the round type with a back with no problems.